site

/\sit\/ noun

Letters

4 characters

Frequency Rank

#286

in French word usage

Misspellings

5

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

site is aFrenchnoun. It means: Situation du lieu ou du terrain où s’élèvent une ville, un village, une station, un monument, etc., manière dont l’objet géographique se situe dans le lieu qu’il occupe par rapport à son environnem... Pronounced \sit\. It ranks #286 in French word frequency. Often confused with st and six.

Key facts for site
PropertyValue
Headwordsite
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sit\
Letters4
Frequency rank#286
Misspellings tracked5
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of site in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for site is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sit\. Corpus data places it at rank #286 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for site, with forms such as "iste", "siet", and "sitte". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "st", "six", "stp", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is site, spelled S-I-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Situation du lieu ou du terrain où s’élèvent une ville, un village, une station, un monument, etc., manière dont l’objet géographique se situe dans le lieu qu’il occupe par rapport à son environnement immédiat.
  2. 2
    Partie pittoresque d’un paysage.
  3. 3
    Ensemble de contenus, fichiers, pages, documents et d’applications placés sous une même autorité et accessibles par la toile à partir d’une même adresse universelle, typiquement un site web.
  4. 4
    Position sur une molécule ou sur une surface où à lieu une réaction, une adsorption, ou quelconque autre interaction chimique ou physique. S'utilise particulièrement pour les réactions catalytiques et enzymatiques.
  5. 5
    Site de pratique.
  6. 6
    Synonyme d’élévation : angle formé entre la ligne de visée (ou la ligne de mire) et l’horizontale.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: iste,siet,sitte,ssite,stie

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for site

Misspelling Variants of "site"

iste4siet4sitte5ssite5stie4
Misspelling Variants of "site"

Frequency rank: #286 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "site"?
"site" is spelled S-I-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \sit\.
What does "site" mean?
As a noun, "site" means: Situation du lieu ou du terrain où s’élèvent une ville, un village, une station, un monument, etc., manière dont l’objet géographique se situe dans le lieu qu’il occupe par rapport à son environnem...
What words are commonly confused with "site"?
"site" is commonly confused with "st", "six", "stp". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "site"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "site" is \sit\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "site" come from?
"site" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.